Early Statehood

Many citizens of the United States did not want to annex Texas because:

• Texas had been its own country and might go to war with the United States.
• Texas would be a slave state and would affect the power in the government.
• The United States did not want to gain any more land.
• The United States did not want to go to war with Spain.

The belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean was called

• Resolution
• Compromise of 1850
• Manifest Destiny
• Mexican Cession

Why was the election of James K. Polk as President of the United States in 1845 important to Texas?

• It showed that most Americans were in favor of annexing Texas.
• It allowed Texas to pay off debt.
• Texas was given more land.
• Mexico was scared it would not win the war against the United States.

All of the following are branches of the Texas government except

• Judicial branch
• Legislative Branch
• Senate branch
• Executive branch

What was the main cause of the U.S.-Mexican War?

• Zachary Taylor built a fort at Brownsville.
• Mexico and the United States could not agree on the Texas-Mexico border.
• Napoleon Dana stationed his soldiers near the Rio Grande.
• Texas wanted to control Mexico.

Which of the following rivers did the United States claim was the border between Texas and Mexico?

• Nueces River
• Brazos River
• Trinity River
• Rio Grande

The most common cause of death for United States soldiers who fought in the U.S.-Mexican War was

• disease
• accidents
• battle wounds
• cannon fire

Texas gave up millions of acres of land in exchange for $10 million as a part of the 

• Texas Revolution
• Treaty of Velasco
• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
• Compromise of 1850

The largest group of immigrants that came into Texas were from

• Japan
• Ireland
• Germany
• Canada

The African American population in Texas grew rapidly in the 1850s because

• Many Southern farmers moved to Texas with slaves
• Many came looking for jobs
• More freed African Americans were staying in Texas 
• They wanted to live as freed people in Texas